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Don't Tax The Rich, Tax Inequality, Aaron S. Edlin
Don't Tax The Rich, Tax Inequality, Aaron S. Edlin
Aaron Edlin
A Brandeis tax can stop inequality in its tracks.
Clearings And Thickets, Robert D. Cooter, Aaron Edlin
Clearings And Thickets, Robert D. Cooter, Aaron Edlin
Aaron Edlin
Abstract: Intellectual property rights create temporary monopoly power for innovators. Monopoly pricing transfers wealth to the innovator from the innovations buyers -- consumers, producers, and other innovators. For innovations mostly used in consumption and production, the transfer from consumers and producers to innovators increases the profitability of innovating and causes more of it. The welfare gains from faster growth quickly overtake the temporary losses from monopoly’s dead weight loss. Thus intellectual property rights should be strong for innovations mostly used by consumers and producers. In contrast, for innovations mostly used by other innovators, the transfer of wealth from one innovator …
2011 Professor's Update To Antitrust Analysis, Problems, Text, And Cases, Philip Areeda, Louis Kaplow, Aaron S. Edlin
2011 Professor's Update To Antitrust Analysis, Problems, Text, And Cases, Philip Areeda, Louis Kaplow, Aaron S. Edlin
Aaron Edlin
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